Got my new sager np 8268-s

So this is my first gaming rig of any sort. Would have loved to build a pc but I work in a remote location in northern Canada living in a camp 3 weeks out of the month so it would be useless to me.

Got it with the i7-4810. 8g of ram. Gtx 970m. 120g ssd for os and 750g hdd.

It's an amazing experience so far gaming on pc. After playing on my friends new ps4 I was very dissapointed in the graphics it was producing. Figured in today's age it would catch up. All I saw was a lot of fancy lighting to give an illusion of awesome graphics.

Currently playing The Witcher 2. Had it on my steam account but my old hp laptop staggered on low settings so never played it.

At first I set the graphics to ultra only to find it unplayable fps. After a quick Google learned of its " uber sampling" option which apparently pushes even the best machines to their knees. Turned that off and just stunned by the quality.

Downloaded a program to watch some temperatures. Even after hours and hours of gaming the processor or gpu never go past 65 Celsius at peak. Generally its at about 60 degrees.

For anyone considering this laptop and the 970m, it's doing me well. I'm not sure where to get a program to see what the fps are but I would assume I'm getting over 50 consistently. I know since I've had gsmes on my old laptop that had a counter and anything below 40 bugs me.

Considered the 980m for a little more future proof but 350$ was just hard for me to justify for the gains I was reading about and seeing on YouTube videos.

I will say that the complaints about fan sound are probably true. Hard for me to compare since it's my first gaming rig, but during any type of video play or gaming they are noticeable. Does not bug me at all. It's doing its job keeping temps and I always use headphones anyways. It's no worse then a desktops fan.

Any students considering as a multi purpose class/ game rig would not be a good idea. I myself don't consider it portable. It says 7 poinds which requires a decent one hand grip to hold. The charger gets some looks from other people. It's about the size of a brick lol.

I ordered it with no logo and it just looks sick. I like the simple design, very slick and clean. (Light up alien heads don't do anything for me).

Only issues so far is battery life isn't great. 4 hours of surfing web and such and maybe 2.5 hous of watching movies. Seems to be the norm for a gaming rig.

This is more of a user issue but need to figure out some issues with the ssd. Since the os is on the primary ssd which is only 128g, all the general crap wants to naturally go to it. Such as my witcher 2 save files, my pictures, videos, etc is also there and from reseaech just simply cut and pasting these folders could cause issues with Windows.

Also the nvidia software offers "shadow play" which basically offers you some different time options up to 20 minutes. So say I have this awesome gsme moment, hit alt f10 and it'll save a video of the last 20 minutes or whatever your time is set at as it is constantly using the ram to buffer previous gameplay. These videos are also going to my videos and I can't find how to change it and it also uses temp files on my ssd to constantly write from reseaech I saw. So this apparently could be taxing on the ssd since it's constantly writing during gameplay?

All in all, very pleased. I generally have some sort of buyers remorse but not this time.

 

You can move your library folders.

Open up windows explorer, drill down to your 'User' account (like Libraries -> MyName).

Under that is a bunch of 'Library' links like Documents, Movies, Music, and so forth.

Right click, bring up properties, go to Location tab. type in the new destination, hit 'Move' and it'll move it all to your data drive.

Link is How to Move Windows 7 Personal Folders Like My Documents to Another Drive

Glad you're enjoying the rig. I have the 8258-S with the 880M. Thermals on my GPU run about 10c higher than yours, but that's expected with the architecture difference, the CPU is about spot on.

The battery life is about right, I can push upwards to 6 hours if I don't do a lot of high-end videos or the like, since HD videos tend to pop on your nvidia GPU which drains power faster.

Watching high-end videos or DVD movies, I pop about 4 1/2 hour (give or take). Games I can push to 3 hours, if I set the battery saver to 30 fps. At 50fps It'll drop to 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

So sounds like things are spot on.

And 4 hours for a gaming laptop is outstanding. My Mac OSX macbook pro lasted about 7 hours, 4-5 hours under heavy load. And it's designed for the longest life it can get.

In comparison, the gaming rig isn't bad at all.

For stability, they suggest making a new default save location and then specify this for your 'new default' as the D: drive.

That way if the data drive fails, your windows boot won't have issues with missing pathing. Scroll down in the below link to Setting a New Default Save Location

Moving Windows 7/8 Libraries - Puget Custom Computers

 

I'm seriously amazed that you noticed that most of the "good graphics" that PS4/X1 has is essentially sexy lighting & reflections... that's really amazing. It's rare I'll find someone who notices that off the bat without being told =O.

 

Stop getting so turned on by everything rofl

 

No, that's your tech stash. This was just surprise XD.

 

so many monitors for activities

 

Bro you don't even KNOW of Luna's tech stash. I COULD SWIM IN IT

 

How's the screen? Good rich colors while gaming?


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